Chad Orzel pokes around the NCAA's horrible website to take a look at the graduation rates of scholarship athletes. For the most part, he finds that athletes are graduating at the same or slightly lower rate as their demographic counterparts in the student body at large. There is one question:
I don't really know, but a closer look at the numbers shows that almost all of that discrepancy can be attributed to the baseball team, who only graduated 50% of their (all-white) incoming class of 2000-2001. What is up with that?
Anyway, I may poke around the NCAA's numbers a bit, mining them for interesting things. I've already learned that 1 out of every 5 black men attending Duke is doing so on an athletic scholarship; what else is out there?